GRILLED CHEESE SANDWICH

My beautiful Sophia called and while we were chatting she told me she likes to have a grilled cheese sandwich now and then.

I suggested she ask her mom Natasha who makes the best in the nation's west, north, south, and east sides. There was a time I was crowned king of the grilled cheese-crowded kingdom. Mind you, Charlies, my son-in-law, and her dad is a wonderful chef and I enjoy all his meals.

The cheese you should pick for the gooiest cheese pull, the bread and kitchen tool to take things to the next level, and the controversial secret ingredient some chefs swear by.

There are many types of cheese, with around 500 different varieties recognized by the International Dairy Federation. The varieties may be classified into types according to criteria such as length of aging, texture, methods of making, fat content, animal milk, country or region of origin, etc.—with these either being used singly or in combination, but with no single method being universally used.

The method most commonly used is based on moisture content, which is then further discriminated by fat content and curing or ripening methods. Some attempts have been made to rationalize the classification of cheese—a scheme was proposed by Pieter Walstra that uses the primary and secondary starter combined with moisture content, and Walter and Hargrove suggested classifying by production methods which produce 18 types, which are then further grouped by moisture content.

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